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Tom Boogaart

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Angels in Brown Boxes

At the beginning of every Christmas season, I descend the stairs to the basement and search the backroom for a large brown box marked “Christmas.”

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Children Entering the Kingdom

Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.  Matthew 18:3 In words that still

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The Year I Was a Christian

Hilghe Stede I didn’t have the heart to part with it: a silver-plated cream and sugar set with matching tray, now tarnished by age. Judy

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Jesus Hates Me!

Last spring I was hiking along a section of the Saline River that shambles through the city of Milan, Michigan, and I came to a

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One Flower or Twenty Flowers

As I was walking through Kollen Park in Holland, Michigan along the shoreline of Lake Macatawa, I overtook a young mother and her two daughters.

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The Ants Are My Companions

The Gap Michelangelo’s fresco of God and Adam on the ceiling of Sistine Chapel is spellbinding: God coming with hand reaching out and Adam waiting

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